WATCH: Paul Ryan Says He Has Already Cast His Ballot For Trump

The Republican presidential nominee and the House speaker have had a tortured relationship with each other all year. After Trump became the GOP’s presumptive candidate, Ryan held off on endorsing him for several weeks.

This all came to a head in the days after the release of a decade-old Access Hollywood tape showing Trump bragging about groping and kissing women without their permission. Ryan didn’t unendorse Trump, but he told fellow House Republicans he’d no longer campaign for or defend the nominee.

Since that moment, several Republicans have walked back their condemnations of Trump. Tightening national polls certainly played a role in that, too — it’s much more strategic to distance yourself from someone losing in a landslide than someone who’s just a few points back in the race.

But Ryan told Fox News on Tuesday morning that he has already cast his ballot, and that he cast it for Trump. “I already voted here in Janesville for our nominee last week, in early voting,” he told Fox & Friends. “We need to support our entire Republican ticket.”

One reason he gave was the ongoing controversy over Hillary Clinton’s private email server. “The point I keep trying to make to younger voters who did not live through the 1990s — this is what life with the Clintons looks like,” Ryan said. “There’s always a scandal, one after another. Then there’s an investigation.”

Clinton allies would say the vast majority of those investigations — from the initial Whitewater probe to the eventual focus on Bill Clinton’s extramarital affair — were partisan efforts pushed by Republicans.

Notably, though, Ryan still doesn’t seem all that enthusiastic about Trump. He referred to Trump as “our nominee” and talked of supporting “the entire Republican ticket” during the course of the Fox interview. He also told the network …